atexit handler in IDLE?

[Mark Janssen]

On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 6:25 AM, Steve Spicklemire <steve at spvi.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to get this program, which works on the command line, to run correctly in the IDLE environment:
>
> import atexit
>
> print "This is my program"
>
> def exit_func():
>     print "OK.. that's all folks!"
>
> atexit.register(exit_func)
>
> print "Program is ending..."

You know, I think I looked at this problem once.  It was rather
strange, but I think you need to create a tempfile, so that Python
knows that IDLE is running.   There's an item for this in IDLE's TODO
list.  I was going to implement it, which is fairly east, but never
got to it.

mark